Lords call for parliament to be involved in Brexit talks

The British parliament should be involved in scrutinizing the Brexit negotiations as the happen, not “after the fact,” members of the House of Lords said Thursday.

“We can’t allow a situation where parliamentarians here in Westminster are treated as second-class citizens,” Lord Boswell, chairman of the upper house of parliament’s EU select committee said.

In a report, the committee said it would be in the interests of the British government, the parliament and the public for the parliament to vote on the government’s Brexit negotiation guidelines before Article 50 is triggered.

“We’re not asking to ‘micromanage’ the negotiations, which will rightly be conducted by the government. But we do have a role and a duty to scrutinize the way the government goes about that task,” Boswell said.